Trump, executive order and childhood vaccination
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President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be
Doctors say President Donald Trump’s new executive order on vaccines is misguided and likely to stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school.
The Trump administration, which had recently avoided public discussions of vaccine policy because of concern around the political repercussions, is changing course.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday aimed at reshaping the federal government’s approach toward childhood vaccines, insisting that infants should receive fewer immunizations over a longer period despite little scientific evidence supporting such sweeping changes.
Presidential directive reinstates a stayed 11-disease schedule outside ACIP, potentially sidestepping ongoing litigation while compressing review into an HHS-led 90-day planning process. Core “all-children” list includes MMR, DTaP, polio, Hib ...
By Jacob Bogage, Ahmed Aboulenein and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for fewer childhood vaccinations by limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunizations,